What’s happening in Year 6

6CORE3 – Science Plants

This term, our Year 6 students have been diving into the fascinating world of habitats and adaptations. In small groups, students have taken on the responsibility of nurturing a plant. During the first two weeks, they focused on ensuring their plants received adequate water and sunlight.

Now, the real experiment begins! Students will explore how different habitats affect plant growth by manipulating six independent variables, including sunlight, water, and water type (e.g., acidic or salty). We are thrilled to see the students’ curiosity and investigative skills in action as they delve deeper into this exciting project in the coming weeks.

Sian Tierney
Year 6 Teacher

6CORE4 

This term Year 6 has been working on a picture book task that incorporates an image that symbolises Hope. The plot was developed in class and students created their picture book focusing on how the image and words were placed across their pages. They enjoyed being creative and look forward to sharing their stories with their peers.

Ann Milicic
Year 6 teacher

Year 6 Maks/Dunphy

Picture Book Publishing

As a culmination of the Year 6 study into imagery, symbolism and connotation, the girls created their own picture books, demonstrating an understanding of their own authorial choice to use symbols to express meaning and emotion.

They were tasked with using their own symbol to represent Hope, told through a cohesive and creative storyline. They planned, created text and images, edited and published their story to ensure that their message was effectively communicated.

Eamonn Dunphy and Marisa Maks
Year 6 teachers

Drama in Year 6

During Drama lessons we have been exploring what drama is and the excitement of drama. Then we watched Dreamtime stories and we wrote a script using these as inspiration and presented them to the class today. We have also been looking at Fables and are presenting these in drama lessons as well. There have been lots of drama games involving improvisation as well. We are enjoying every lesson. 
Perla and Aiden

Leonie Trees
Year 6 teacher